if so
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“If so, they died in an alternate time, a time that won’t ever happen now since the Academy was never destroyed. What I don’t know is if that act changed the timeline at the mountain enough to save them. So, they might be fine. Or,” he said, and he didn’t need to finish his sentence for me to know what that or meant.
From Literature
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If so, how reliable would you find the results?
“If so, it would hurt global growth and raise global inflation noticeably,” the chief economist says.
If so, it would be the very first time such a thing has happened.
From MarketWatch
But if so, it is not at all certain that these collaborators would be able to sway or dominate their fellow officers—or whether rival factions will rise in opposition.
From Slate
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